[[folder:[=YMMVs=] for the X-Men comics:]]* AdaptationDisplacement: Azazel and Toad have both been largely displaced by their respective film adaptations, both of which are generally preferred over their original incarnations. William Stryker is a curious example in that his original incarnation wasn't ''bad'', and is still regarded well as a villain, but has been overshadowed by his film incarnation thanks to the latter being one of the most recurring villains across all ten films (only Magneto and Mystique have made more appearances).* {{Anvilicious}}: The anti-bigotry message that has pervaded every fiber of ''X-Men'' ever since Creator/ChrisClaremont's run is definitely a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, but under bad writers, it can be taken to laughable extremes. A recurring complaint is that the {{Muggles}}' hatred of mutants frequently gets exaggerated to ludicrous levels just so the message can be hammered further.* ArcFatigue: A common complaint. Every time the X-Men seem to be getting close to having mutants and humans coexisting, the ResetButton gets smashed so the anti-bigotry Aesop can continue being bashed into the readers' skulls.** This is also largely the reason behind why the M-Pox storyline is so poorly received; not only does it essentially repeat the same beats as Decimation did (mutants are going extinct, no more new mutants, etc), but its ''also'' a repeat of the earlier and similar Legacy Virus arc (disease targeting mutants, characters struggle to find a cure).* AuthorAvatar: Havok was unfortunately reduced to one for the Chuck Austen era, as the character reminded Austen of himself.* BaseBreakingCharacter:** Two main ones, on opposing sides. You either think Wolverine's the most badass and complex creation to come out of comics and Cyclops is a douchebag boring whiner who would be better suited as a villain, or that Wolverine is overhyped, overpowered, and a real dick, and Cyclops is mishandled, considerably badass, and one of the most complex characters in the comics. Now, combine that with RunningTheAsylum, and we get some truly EpicFail stories and OutOfCharacterMoment stories. Wolverine is actually listed as both an EnsembleDarkhorse ''and'' a CreatorsPet on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]]. Or you think both characters are annoying and wish they would just go away. Or, somewhat less commonly, you think both characters are good and make decent rivals and foils for one another.** Apocalypse is another big one, and it's one that seems very dependent on ''when'' you started following the comics. Fans who started following the comics around the time he was introduced likely think he's an incredibly badass villain, one of the all-time greats and easily the biggest threat to the X-Men, with a neat backstory and some pivotal stories to boot. Fans who started following significantly before or after his introduction tend to consider him a laughable VillainSue who, despite his [[SuperpowerLottery ridiculously unlimited powers]] and massive advantages, hasn't actually accomplished anything besides giving the heroes more powers, with a look ripped off from ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and ComicBook/{{Thanos}} to boot.** While not strictly speaking an X-Men villain, Thanos is this to a segment of the X-Men fandom for the ''exact same reasons'' described above for Apocalypse: laughably VillainSue, StoryBreakerPower with nothing to show for it, a lamer proto-version of ''their'' villain of choice and... yeah. The rivalry between Apocalypse and Thanos fans, while simmering in the background compared to the front-and-center Cyclops VS Wolverine argument, is most definitely this.* BrokenBase: A new one has appeared as of the revelation of the ''AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' line that [[spoiler:the Terrigen Mists are now lethal to mutants for ''some reason'', they have decimated mutants back down to an endangered species, and Cyclops has done ''something'' (that will be an ongoing mystery) to piss off the world back into "Kill All Mutants" mode-and ''this'' has made whichever mutants (that aren't the X-Men) that are still alive to pull stakes and get the hell out of Dodge]]. The fact that this [[YankTheDogsChain yanks the dog's chain]] of the ending of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', [[spoiler:turns Cyclops into an ''even bigger'' douchebag after A.V.X. turned him into a pariah-seeking terrorist and arcs like ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'' showcased some amount of TheExtremistWasRight]] and seriously disconnects the readers from any supposed connection with mutant hood (it's supposed to stand in for any persecuted minority, but [[spoiler:becoming a ''nearly-extinct'' minority ''twice in a row'' with only a year or so of breathing time at the most]] seriously kills the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief) has caused many people to decry the storyline for DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, while others are accepting of the new story set-ups despite of what is still an excess. [[spoiler:There is also the discussion whether this whole situation, rehashing of post-M-Day as some people seem to think it is, is just more fuel to the fire Marvel seems to be pushing on to people of accepting The Inhumans as the new "misunderstood and loathed yet badass superhuman species" ''du jour'' (and with ''that'' there is massive discussions about ExecutiveMeddling that are better off discussed elsewhere).]]* CantUnhearIt: Fans tend to hear Creator/JimWard or Creator/PatrickStewart (along with [[WesternAnimation/XMen Cedric Smith]] or Creator/JamesMcAvoy) as Professor Xavier, Creator/NolanNorth or Norm Spencer (or maybe Kirby Marrow) as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, Creator/LiamOBrien as Angel, Creator/SteveBlum or Creator/ScottMcNeil (or Cal Dodd) as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Creator/YuriLowenthal as ComicBook/{{Iceman}}, Creator/JenniferHale (or maybe Catherine Disher or Creator/VenusTerzo) as ComicBook/JeanGrey, Creator/FredTatasciore or George Buza as Beast, Liam O'Brien as ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, Creator/SusanDalian as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, Creator/PhilLaMarr (or maybe Chris Porter or Tony Daniels) as ComicBook/{{Gambit}}, Creator/LenoreZann (or maybe Megan Black or Kieren van den Blink) as ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, Creator/DanielleJudovits (or maybe Creator/KathSoucie or Maggie Blue O'Hara) as ComicBook/KittyPryde, and Creator/KariWahlgren as ComicBook/EmmaFrost among the other members whenever they are reading their lines from just about anywhere.** As for the enemies of the X-Men (particularly the members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and others), fans tend to hear Creator/TomKane or Creator/IanMcKellen (or David Harlem for the ones that grew up in the 90's) as ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, Creator/KateHiggins as ComicBook/ScarletWitch, or Creator/MarkHildreth or Creator/RichardIanCox as ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, A.J. Buckley or Noah Fisher as Toad, Nigel Bennett or Creator/TravisWillingham as Mastermind, Creator/StephenStanton or Creator/MichaelDobson as the Blob, Creator/NolanNorth (or maybe Creator/TrevorDevall) as Pyro, James Patrick Stuart or Christopher Grey as Avalanche, Jennifer Dale or Coleen Wheeler (or maybe Tamara Bernier or Creator/JenniferLawrence) as ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, among other villains.** The late [[WesternAnimation/XMen John Colicos]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Nm8TIolgU is]]'' ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}. There simply is no other. * CompleteMonster: [[Monster/XMen See here.]]* CounterpartComparison:** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is the tormented EvilFormerFriend of the heroes' wise mentor (a genial old man with powerful mental abilities), he dresses in a fearsome suit of battle armor with a cape and an antiquated warrior's helmet, he's prone to MilkingTheGiantCow while making dramatic speeches, he often shows off his superpowers by making objects float and [[NoSell rendering conventional weapons harmless against him]], he gives birth to twin children who turn out to be much less evil than he is, and his character arc gradually makes clear that he's a TragicVillain who's always been capable of redeeming himself. [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader?]] Is that you?** In general, the series' premise is very similar to the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' series, leading to quite a few amusing parallels between them. Hogwarts and the Xavier Institute are both private schools hidden from the public eye (one in a castle, one in a mansion) where seemingly normal children blessed with fantastic abilities are invited to hone their skills while safely hidden from [[{{Muggles}} ordinary humans]] who might consider them to be "unnatural". Also, the leader of the heroes' group is an orphaned young man with glasses in love with a FieryRedhead, the heroes' mentor is a wise old Professor [[EvilFormerFriend who was once close friends with an unsavory terrorist leader]], the main antagonist is a charismatic figure who wants the super-powered elite to rule over ordinary humans, and the Phoenix is a recurring AnimalMotif. The X-Men even briefly keep a small dragon as a TeamPet.** The Shaman from Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo are Mutant in all but name as they are only called Shaman because they would usually train in the clerical arts as a way to control their abilities. Which could explain why Charles Xavier is such a powerful teleapath? Xavier's knowledge of the body and its energies/chakras has gained him the unofficial degree of a seasoned Zen master, allotting him the ability to keep in the prime of his physique.* CrazyAwesome: Dr. Nemesis the wisecracking, LargeHam MadScientist and NaziHunter who is apparently immortal.* CreatorWorship: Chris Claremont is an odd case. As noted elsewhere on this page, there is a vocal contingent of diehard X-Men fans online that absolutely ''revere'' the man, elevating him into a SacredCow for his legendary 16-year run on the X-Men and brushing aside his more hit-or-miss work on the franchise afterwards. On the other hand, he's become almost infamous in the fandom for his love of fetishes and tendency to mire his works in KudzuPlot. Perhaps most puzzling, though, is that his greatest contribution to ''X-Men'' as a whole, emphasizing the "mutants-as-minority" message that would go on to become a cornerstone of the entire franchise, is largely forgotten, with many fans assuming it has just always been part of the X-Men from day one. In fact, the original incarnation of the X-Men as imagined by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby was little more than an AlternateCompanyEquivalent take on Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/DoomPatrol, and the very reason the mutant concept was originally created was as an easy HandWave to explain the source of the X-Men's superpowers (as opposed to the elaborate backstories that were then the norm for superheroes). While prejudice against the mutants was there almost from the get-go, it was not nearly as fundamental to the stories before Claremont.* CreatorsPet:** Nurse Annie Ghazikhanian in ''Uncanny X-Men''. Universally maligned "writer" Chuck Austen introduced the single mother/apparent expert in mutant physiology shortly into his equally despised run on ''X-Men''. WordOfGod stated she was based on Austen's real-life wife, never a good start. He quickly made her the inane central character in many of his story lines. This usually included:*** Vapidly gossiping about sexy men with once-intelligent characters Husk and Northstar.*** Throwing tantrums/acting holier than thou during battles and various X-Men crises.*** Dispensing shallow advice to other characters on their "romantic woes."*** Wrapping bandages around injured characters' heads (regardless of their actual injury)*** Apparently boning Iceman for no apparent reason.*** Annie is mostly remembered for her creepy relationship with Havok, which started as a crush when she was caring for the longtime X-Man whilst he was in a comatose state. Once revived, Alex showed an immediate and unfounded attraction for Annie also. It was eventually revealed Annie's equally creepy mutant son Carter had been setting the two up on 'psychic dates' for months, allowing Austen to place the two characters in a relationship without needing to bother about annoying things such as context or developing a rapport between the characters. To further infuriate and confound readers, Austen also depicted Havok's longtime partner Polaris as an insane, homicidal, bitchy ex to further drive home the point that Annie was The Virgin Mary and Gandhi rolled into one.*** Fan reaction to Annie (and Austen's run in general) was overwhelmingly negative, a fact that the writer dismissed as unreasonable "trolls". With his final story arc with the X-Men franchise, Austen wrote Annie and Carter out of the X-Men books. The pre-Austen Polaris/Havok relationship was restored in time and Annie only made a single ''cameo'' nearly ten years ago.** [[Comicbook/{{X23}} X-23]] enjoys her fair share of this too, particularly whenever Craig Kyle is around. Being a teenage OppositeSexClone of Wolverine, she is everything everyone hates about him with very few of his redeeming qualities like wisdom and compassion. Instead, she comes across as an antisocial JerkAss, and yet the writers fight themselves over who puts her in what. Her role in ''New X-Men'' in particular, once her creators Craig Kyle and Chris Yost took over the title, you could be forgiven for thinking was written by a thirteen-year-old girl. She's portrayed as having NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, usually something related to animalistic senses, that enable her to figure things out before anyone else, as well as ten times the competence of the other kids with none of their charm coming with the territory of being inexperienced teenage superheroes. As the final punch to the gut, she hooks up with the [[DracoInLeatherPants hot bad boy character]] after his original love interest is [[PutOnABus clumsily written out]]. And it didn't do her any favors that the ''original'' main characters of the series were either unceremoniously [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off]], [[PutOnABus written out]] or {{demoted to extra}} to make room for X-23 being the primary focus. This is ironic, given that she was initially an EnsembleDarkhorse when she originated on ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''. Perhaps it's the fact she has poor characterization these days while being a ''regular'' (always a failure of a combination for any character).* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Let us be honest, they will ''[[StatusQuoIsGod always]]'' be "feared and hated." Any attempt at them improving their lot in life will ''always'' be at risk of [[YankTheDogsChain being demolished]] by the next [[RunningTheAsylum author who wants to change things]] or [[ExecutiveMeddling an editor that wants to change things]], and ''anybody'' you like [[AnyoneCanDie is most probably gonna kick the bucket at some point]] (and the question of [[DeathIsCheap when they will come back]] being pretty much up to said writers, editors and which VocalMinority is loudest). And InUniverse reasons for this happening... someone will become a {{Jerkass}} and ruin everything and some villain will always come along to try and see if he can exterminate the "mutant menace" when [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed the literal armies of mutant haters that came before them]] could not.** This is actually acknowledged and played with in ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom''; [[spoiler: Beast's]] future self became fed up of fighting for the X-Men after the first mutant President is assassinated, making him hit a DespairEventHorizon as he realized that they'll likely never, truly, be accepted. When the present day X-Men talk to the future team about this, and are clearly shaken by this reality, they assure them that things ''will'' get better, but at their point in time they still have time to go. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed [[BrokenAesop he was being controlled]] by Xavier and Mystique's evil son the whole time]].* DesignatedHero:** In the early comics, Xavier could give this impression, with his habit of keeping secrets and insisting others do the same painting him as a far more morally-ambiguous figure than Lee and Kirby intended him to be. Later writers made this an actual character trait of his, and one that he is called out on and has to atone for.** In recent years Cyclops and Wolverine have became this. Cyclops has became a violent extremist who refuses to accept responsibility and justifies his actions with weak excuses, whereas Wolverine has became a hypocrite who would rather waste time fighting with his allies than use it fighting their enemies, and gets incredibly douchey in his arguments despite supposedly being the one who we're supposed to side with.** As of the 2014 ComicBook/{{Axis}} story arc Sabretooth has become ''literally'' one of these due to his inversion sticking after the story and his being positioned into heroic roles as a member of the Avengers Unity Squad and later Magneto's X-Men. While some readers have welcomed this take on the character, others have scorned it as it essentially asks readers to root for one of the X-Men's longest running and worst CompleteMonster characters for no other reason than he's a good guy now because a AWizardDidIt.* DieForOurShip:** Every corner of the Emma Frost/Scott Summers/Jean Grey/Logan love square has its shippers and detractors. Same for Rogue/Gambit and every relationship here.** Jason Aaron, the writer of ''Wolverine and the X-Men'', was accused of doing this during his run. After Colossus turned into the Juggernaut, it resulted in Kitty breaking up with him... for some reason. Then he had Kitty, when she joined Wolverine, get together with Iceman, despite them never being depicted that close in the main comics. Likewise, when he broke up ComicBook/BlackPanther and Storm in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', he had Storm migrate to his book and had her get together with Logan (though, at least this one made ''some'' sense).** A little-remembered X-Men from the 90s is Joseph, who was ''literally'' killed off by the writers in part for his interfering with the Gambit/Rogue ship (the other part was him having no more narrative purpose since it was decided that he wasn't Magneto after all).* DorkAge: The X-Men have run for over fifty years, meaning everyone will have at least one period they consider an irredeemable DorkAge (except ''maybe'' the Claremont/Byrne run). ** The most commonly regarded nadir for the X-Men titles is everything from the end of Operation Zero Tolerance, to the start of the [[Creator/GrantMorrison Morrison]]/[[Comicbook/XForce Milligan]]/[[Creator/ChrisClaremont Claremont]]/[[Creator/JoeCasey Casey]] era.** For some people, Morrison's run. This is a ''very'' BrokenBase though, with many others regarding it as one of the best, so we'll just leave it at that.[[note]]And of course within Morrison's run you have people who like one part but not another, et cetera, particularly when ''Planet X'' gets mentioned.[[/note]]** Perhaps the one tenure that ''everybody'' regards as a DorkAge can be summed up with one name: Chuck Austen. Just see CreatorsPet above for an idea of how people felt about his time on ''Uncanny X-Men''. (That said, it does have ''some'' good points - many people thought Juggernaut's HeelFaceTurn, which was later reversed, wasn't actively terrible, at least.)** The M-Day era, often regarded as heavy-handed ExecutiveMeddling from editorial, and steadily undermined for years by writers before it was eventually properly reversed. ** There is a overwhelming consensus that the period in which Comicbook/TheInhumans started to rise in prominence in the Marvel Universe is a Dork Age, as it had negative effect on the X-Men. The short version is that the cinematic rights of the X-Men franchise (along with the Comicbook/FantasticFour) lay with Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox as opposed to Creator/{{Disney}}/Marvel Studios. During this period there was as significant slowdown in X-Men related merchandise being made, the X-Men stopped appearing regularly in promotions for Marvel, and comics-wise their standing in the Marvel Universe plummeted, further cemented after Comicbook/SecretWars2015 in which mutantkind was under threat of extinction and mutants were hated and feared more than ever -- [[YoYoPlotPoint again]]. The fans had enough and after a few noteworthy events; namely the split of Marvel Studios from Marvel Entertainment, the wild success of Film/Deadpool2016, the failure of the Inhumans push along with their planned Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movie being downgraded to a TV show, and Marvel Entertainment and 20th Century Fox working together to make X-Men TV shows, the comics were relaunched in 2017 with a renewed focus on the team being heroes.* DracoInLeatherPants:** Due to his FreudianExcuse and generous use of the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, Magneto tends to get hit with Leather Pants, with fans declaring him to be in the right even in his most extreme moments. On the other hand, he also gets hit with Death Eater status by his anti-fans, who tend to ignore that he hasn't really been a villain since before Grant Morrison's run - which was back in 2001.** Sabretooth also gets his fair share of Leather Pants, especially post-''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. The character is a cruel, psychotic serial killer, and probably one of the most loathsome CompleteMonster villains the X-Men have ever faced, yet fans ([[RunningTheAsylum and writers]]) bend over backwards to give him FreudianExcuse after FreudianExcuse.** Even some of the human villains (William Stryker, for example) have those willing to argue how they're not really ''that bad'', even when they're advocating outright genocide, or are established child killers, or both.* EnsembleDarkhorse: ** In recent years, the writers have a tendency to take a shine to a particular X-Kid and promote them to the main cast or recurring character status. For Mike Carey, it's Trance. Warren Ellis has Armor. Craig Kyle and Chris Yost have Elixir and Loa. Because she was Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction's pick, Pixie ended up not only on the ''Uncanny X-Men'', but with her own miniseries. Jason Aaron ''attempted'' this with Quentin Quire, but ended up creating a {{Scrappy}} instead.** Doop was a fan-favorite in ''X-Force'' and ''X-Statix'', and his return in ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' was much-appreciated.** Dr. Nemesis is a minor one due to being a hilarious, CrazyAwesome mad scientist.** Of all the characters introduced in Grant Morrison's run, Fantomex was definitely the most popular. He's managed to last while most of the characters from Morrison's run were largely forgotten about, changing from a minor new guy into a series regular. ** For being a Chuck Austen character, Mammomax the Elephant Man is surprisingly well-remembered by the fandom, probably due to his inherent NarmCharm.** Fan reaction to Creator/BrianBendis [[TheWorfEffect worfing]] Exodus in his run on ''Uncanny'' revealed that character might well be one of the few villain dark horses out there.* EthnicScrappy:** Creator/GrantMorrison during his tenure writing created Angel Salvadore, as some sort of vaguely Latina, foul-mouthed 14 year-old who was kicked out of her house by her step-father when her mutant powers developed.** Maggott had an uphill climb with his bizarre power of two giant all-consuming pet slugs that act as his digestive system, but what really killed him as a character was his constant, [[JiveTurkey exaggerated version of Afrikaans slang]], which tended to focus on guava, biscuits, and sherbert. His dopey mohawak front-ponytail hair didn't help either.** Psylocke became this for some in the 90s after she body-swapped into a nubile Japanese ninja character. Twenty years later, AdaptationDisplacement has kicked in so thoroughly that most X-Men fans don't even know that character wasn't originally a Japanese ninja at all.** Thunderbird plays with this. Many fans wonder what it would be like [[WhatCouldHaveBeen if he had not died]], but he clearly would've fallen into this trope.* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Frequently, Rogue gets forced into keeping her powers despite how mind-numbingly horrible they are.* {{Fanon}}: Many fans prefer to consider Creator/ChrisClaremont's original plan for the identity of Nightcrawler's parents--that Mystique used her powers to temporarily become male and impregnate her lover Destiny--to be official {{canon}}, largely because Chuck Austen's decision to make Azazel his father (thus making Nightcrawler half-demon) was met with such lukewarm reception.* FandomRivalry: In recent years, one has cropped up between X-Men fans and Avengers fans, largely due to factors like the movie rights red tape and the recent crossovers that put the two against each other for rather weak reasons. While generally most fans have acknowledged that the writing of these crossovers is bad, there's some debate about whether one side is treated fairly or not.** HypocriticalFandom: And, as a result, there's been a lot of hypocritical claims from both sides too. X-Men fans have been in uproar over Marvel's apparent favouritism towards the Avengers due to Marvel Studios owning and producing the film rights of the Avengers, but a lot of the 'evidence' of this apparent conspiracy to undermine the Fox-produced X-Men films is either questionable at best or outright fabrication at worst, or even things the X-Men fandom enjoy themselves now such as multiple books about their sub-teams, solo-books for their characters, and publicity towards their regular events. Conversely, a lot of the criticisms thrown at the X-Men (being too dark, exaggerated depiction of incompetent or abusive government and law enforcement figures, frequently recruiting former villains, LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, preachy anvilicious messages, etc.) are largely criticisms that equally fit the Avengers too, as well as other big superhero teams like DC's ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'' and TeenTitans. In general, the only thing that Marvel are doing for one that they're not doing for the other is producing a current animated show for X-Men, which is something they've done repeatedly in the past for the X-Men and only recently started doing for the Avengers (X-Men have had [[WesternAnimation/XMen three]] [[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution animated]] [[WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen shows]] and an [[Anime/XMen anime]], while the Avengers have [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand now]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes had]] [[WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble the]] [[Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers same]]).** More recently, there's been an increasingly harsh rivalry with fans of the ComicBook/{{Inhumans}}. Let's just say that things have gotten [[InternetBackdraft heated]] lately, and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement leave it at that.]]* FanonDiscontinuity: A lot of stuff is contested by fans but if there's one thing fans can agree on, it's Chuck Austen's entire run.* FanPreferredCouple: In terms of sheer fan works, there's no more popular of a couple than Gambit and Rogue, but they currently are not together. There's a fairly large, vocal fanbase for current couple Magneto and Rogue (though that ship [[StrangledByTheRedString certainly has its detractors]] too).* FashionVictimVillain:** '''[[http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/spotlight/showquestion.asp?faq=12&fldAuto=154 Changeling.]]''' Presumably the reason he's remained dead for so long is so no one will have to see that horrible headwear ever again.** A close second is Mesmero, who... well, just [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/93/Mesmero_(Vincent)_(Earth-616).png look at him]].* FountainOfMemes: [[WebVideo/MyWayEntertainment "Pimp smack yo' ass, bitch!", "Comb yo' beard, I don't wanna hear that shit", "You can't run from the Juggernaut."]]* GeniusBonus: The word "sinister" comes from the Latin word for "left". When Sinister first appears (as a shadowy figure in Sabertooth's memories) he has his left hand upraised.* GrowingTheBeard: The original comic was considered one of the weakest and poorest-selling of the Lee-Kirby creations. In 1969 Neal Adams took over the art, and, in collaboration with writer Roy Thomas, turned it from one of Marvel's worst books to one of its best. It didn't save the title from cancellation, but gained it a cult following that helped lead to the more successful 1975 revamp.* HilariousInHindsight:** 1968 saw issue #48 and an encounter with Computo, an artificial intelligence that could create his own cybernetic mooks. They were called Cybertrons -- a term put to more extensive use in [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} a different franchise]], one that included a Marvel comic.** In the 1960s, several stories had Scott Summers reject offers by Magneto to join the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants citing his preference for Xavier's coexistence beliefs and even foiled a plot by Magneto to create a new generation of artificially made mutants. Present day, Cyclops is now, constantly, being compared to Magneto due to his more extreme methods of protecting mutants. Magneto even tends to act as Scott's {{Lancer}}.** The original X-Men stories in the 1960s featured a pretty clear power ranking for the team members by continually referring to individual members as "the strongest X-Man", "the weakest member", "the second weakest member" and so on. The members seemed to be ranked as such (from strongest to weakest): Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). Fast forward to modern day: guess which two members of the original team are now [[PersonOfMassDestruction Omega-level mutants?]]** In ''Uncanny X-Men'' [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6704908.html#cutid1 #235 in 1988]], a friend of the X-Men radioed a call for help to them with the codename/callsign [[ComicBook/{{Rogue}} "Rogue one"]], which decades later became the coincidental [[Film/RogueOne film title]] with [[Franchise/StarWars the franchise]] which Marvel Comics [[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars used to be part of]], but wasn't any longer at that time, but which Marvel became part of [[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015 all over again]] decades later.** A cross-media example: in 1993, Creator/{{SEGA}} released ''VideoGame/XMen1993'', a game with a then-original plotline focused on what would happen if the Danger Room were to turn on the X-Men. Fast forward to 2005's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', which puts forth a very similar plot, only with the plot twist of the Danger Room itself turning evil rather than being corrupted by Magneto.** A 90s issue of ''What... Huh?'' had Iceman crushing on Angel (as a parody of Scott and Jean's early CannotSpitItOut routine). And then in the 2010s...* HoYay:** Between Colossus and Wolverine. Ultimate Colossus is a StraightGay with an unrequited crush on Wolverine. In mainstream, they're just HeterosexualLifePartners. ** Between Wolverine and Nightcrawler, who are also very close. Whenever someone targets Wolvie's loved ones, Kurt is included.** Professor X and Magneto have one of the most famous HoYay relationships in all of comics (with a generous dose of FoeYay mixed in).* HypeBacklash: After ''years'' of being far and away the [[WolverinePublicity most prominent and promoted X-Man]], it seems that Wolverine's hype has finally reached a ceiling as the character was killed off in 2014's ''The Death of Wolverine'' storyline and as of the time of this writing, two years later, he is still dead (compare to another shock storyline, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica being [[{{Retcon}} rectonned]] into a HYDRA operative, which was met with instant InternetBackdraft and a very quick AuthorsSavingThrow). While not definitive, it now seems very possible that Wolverine may go the way of Jean Grey, with Marvel keeping him dead while fans skeptically await his "inevitable" return. And if the bent of 2015's ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' is anything to go by, Magneto may well find himself promoted to the [[SpotlightStealingSquad new Wolverine]] before too long...* ItsBeenDone: The X-Men ''themselves'' are sometimes accused of this, of being a rip off of DC's ComicBook/DoomPatrol. Both were created at nearly the same time, and had many similarities. Both teams main premise is that their heroes are actually outcasts from society, feared and treated as "monsters" for their powers (a theme that was not so common back then). Both are led by a grown up man in a wheelchair, who makes up for that handicap with his mind (in the case of Charles Xavier it's mind powers, Niles Caulder is an OmnidisciplinaryScientist). The tagline for the Doom Patrol was "The world's strangest heroes", and the tagline for the X-Men was "The strangest super-heroes of all". The enemy group of the Doom Patrol was the "Brotherhood of evil", and the enemy group of the X-Men was the "Brotherhood of evil mutants". Still, things are not so clear-cut. As a new comic would take at least some months from author creation to hitting the stands, Lee and Kirby should have known about DC's plans in advance to create the X-Men and publish them in time (or, if we go the spy route, perhaps it was DC who discovered Kirby's great idea and beat him to it). In any case, the original Doom Patrol was a short-lived comic, and nowadays both teams have evolved into products with very little in common with their early versions, so the old controversy is a moot point and few people really cares about it. * JerkassWoobie: Wolverine and Magneto are two of the most famous examples in the Marvel Universe. Wolverine is more Woobie than Jerkass but Magneto fits ''perfectly''.* LesYay: Anything by Creator/ChrisClaremont. Try to deny the subtext between Storm and Yukio, or Dani Moonstar and Wolfsbane, or Selene with Rachel Summers and Magma, or Kitty and Rachel, or Kitty and Illyana... Of course, he did it with [[HoYay guys]] and [[FoeYay villains]], too...* MagnificentBastard:** Sebastian Shaw; a would-be usurper comments at one point that trying to outplan him is likely a more difficult task than conquering a country.** Cyclops during the Utopia period of X-Men history. Not everyone can con an entire army of vampires, but Cyke sure can.** Magneto has his moments, too.** Your mileage will ''really'' vary on this one, but Mr. Sinister.** Chris Claremont can be considered an out-of-character example for all the crap he managed to sneak past his editors, with sneaking in the Mystique/Destiny relationship being his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.* MemeticMolester: FABIAN CORTEZ. The dude is basically the X-King of bad touch.* MemeticMutation:** Thanks to Comic Book Resources, Beast [[InferredHolocaust is a war criminal]], Iceman [[AmbiguouslyGay is gay]], and Wolverine is Rachel Summers' real father.** A relatively complete list of the CBR X-Boards' inside jokes can be found [[http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=356992 here.]]*** Amusingly, that old CBR joke about Iceman being AmbiguouslyGay eventually became AscendedFanon in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #600.** ''Days of Future Past'' may just have the most [[http://darkwingblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/darkwingduck_12_cvb_1.jpg?w=400&h=600 frequently]] [[http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/doctor-who-days-of-future-past-452x700.jpg parodied]] [[http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/047/e/6/Star_Wars_Insider_Cover_by_robcamp1000.jpg cover]] [[http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/3/3b/The_Last_Generation_issue_1_variant_cover.jpg of all]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/9/96524/2591536-GitPX.jpg time.]]** Mr. Sinister's Ultimate counterpart infamously introduced Ultimate Professor X to the latter's "true enemy": [[http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg205/scaled.php?server=205&filename=stairs29bc.jpg&res=landing Stairs.]]** "To me, my X-Men!" It's since been used by Cyclops, as well as [[spoiler:an older]] Franklin Richards in ''FF'' as "To me, [[spoiler:my Galactus]]." Kitty's now using it, too.** Magneto/Cyclops was right! [[note]]The rally cry behind Magneto and later Cyclops' WellIntentionedExtremist actions.[[/note]]** A very popular joke is that Jean brainwashed a young Iceman into being gay, due to his sudden sexuality change [[{{Retcon}} contradicting a lot of the character's past.]] * {{Misblamed}}: The weird way [[StrangledByTheRedString Cyclops and Emma Frost were hooked up]] and Jean Grey dying were never Grant Morrison's intention. He had something entirely different planned out but [[ExecutiveMeddling an editorial proclamation forced him to change it at the last minute]]. * MoralEventHorizon:** Arcade crossed this in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', which transformed him from an AffablyEvil joke villain to an unrepentant [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]].** Bishop killed innocent government soldiers, destroyed the X-Mansion, and tried to kill a baby. When Cable saved the kid, Bishop shot at Cable and mortally wounded Xavier instead; then stole a time machine and did even worse to try and kill Cable and the kid until he wiped out all life on Earth.** Cassandra Nova sending the Sentinels to destroy Genosha. This act instantly made Nova one of the most heinous mass murderers the X-universe has ever seen, with over 16 million mutants dying because of it.** Fabian Cortez drags his motley band of harried refugees onto Magneto's space rock doorstep, promptly pulls him out of his HeelFaceTurn and back into villainy, and then sets up a scheme to get rid of both the X-Men and Magneto himself all at once, leaving him free to claim the role of mutantkind's leader. The fact that this scheme will result in the death of his ''own sister'' doesn't bother him in the slightest, and he doesn't even spare a word for poor Anne-Marie as he flies away gloating. He'd do plenty of horrible stuff later too, but it was just gilding the lily: right here in his ''first story'' was when the dude crossed the Event Horizon, and he never once looked back.** Magneto killing Jean Grey. Later retconned. He still has ripping out Logan's skeleton in ''Fatal Attractions'', crucifying Charles in ''Eve of Destruction'', and his general mistreatment of his [[AbusiveParents kids]] and [[BadBoss followers]].** Mystique crossed it in ''Dream's End'' (murdered Moira [=McTaggart=] and stabbed Rogue), then double downed after Xavier and Rogue forgave her during ''Blinded by the Light'' and ''Messiah Complex''. Really, she did it much earlier, brutally murdering [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers']] boyfriend [[ShapeshiftingSeducer while impersonating her]], but that was in a Miss Marvel story rather than an ''X''-book.** It's hard to tell just WHERE Sabretooth crossed it, but his most heinous act involved taking in Daken and playing the role of the father that Daken (who has MAJOR daddy issues, to put it mildly) never had, all the while slowly grooming him for a confrontation with his father, resulting in his death at Wolverine's hands. Why did Sabretooth do this? Simple. He just wanted to hurt Logan at a far deeper level than he could ever manage on his own.** Vulcan crossed it when he killed [[spoiler:his own father, Corsair]].** Wither, whose purpose seems to be to explore how a villain becomes a villain, crossed it gradually under the influence of [[TheCorrupter Selene]], first murdering two policemen in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' and later going all the way when he became a member of her Inner Circle during ''Necrosha''.* MyRealDaddy:** Despite being created and originally produced by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby, the series suffered from low sales and never truly found its voice until Creator/ChrisClaremont and Dave Cockrum (and soon after, Creator/JohnByrne) took over in the 1970s. ** Louis Simonson gets some credit for writing what's now considered the definitive version of Archangel. Similarly, Grant Morrison is considered this for Emma Frost.* {{Narm}}: ** Creator/ChrisClaremont has a fondness for over-narrating ''everything'', not to mention... dramatic pauses. It can get overdone sometimes (though there are those who enjoy them).** During one of Claremont's early issues, Storm defeats a Sentinel, then momentarily angsts over the fact. Why? Because it screamed as she destroyed it. Never mind that it was just trying to kill her and the other X-Men, destroying a killer robot is bad enough to make Storm have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.** This infamous line from early in Austen's run is a pretty good sign of EXACTLY what you're in for:--> [[BeliefMakesYouStupid More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to CURE cancer.]]** The only thing narmier than the dialogue from the Austen era was the art from the Austen era. Thrill to [[https://comicdomwrecks.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mamaguthrie.jpg Angel and Husk's all-too-enthusiastic mid-air intercourse]] (with special guest appearance by Husk's own mother)!* NarmCharm:** The existence of Master Mold, a giant Sentinel who spawns 'smaller' Sentinels from his tummy. Yes, he has the power of robot pregnancy.** There's also Sauron, one of the X-Men's oldest villains and definitely their campiest. He's like a walking example of why people read comics -- deep and complex stories are fine, but sometimes you just want to check your brain at the door and read about people in silly costumes being menaced by a hypnotic vampiric were-pterodactyl dinosaur man.* NeverLiveItDown:** Jean doesn't actually come BackFromTheDead that much. It only truly happened once (other times were fakeouts or resurrecting instantly, which applies to half the other characters as well). She was known for lots of crazy things happening to her, but it got recently morphed into solely coming back from the dead, when that isn't true. Probably people seeing the word "Phoenix", and not bothering to actually do research.** Scott Summers had his squeaky clean image tarnished forever by his shabby treatment of Madelyne Pryor, abandoning her and their son Nathan. A tarnished image that was then irreversibly destroyed when Scott cheated on Jean Grey with Emma Frost. And now, everything that happened during ''[=AvX=]''. What is most interesting is that Scott didn't really abandon Madelyne, he simply went to see for himself if Jean had come back to life and got involved with X-Factor, during which time he kept in contact. By the time he came back to them they were gone. AND also the fact that while Jean made out with Logan and even Angel multiple times during the course of her relationship with Cyclops, she's never called out on it, despite the fact she would gossip with Storm about it. Cyclops gets taken advantage of by Emma Frost (since he was very unstable at this point) by her forcing him into having a TELEPATHIC affair, yet Cyclops is still treated like a scumbag. Adding to that, Jean threw herself at Wolverine during this time and also the fact that after Jean died, Cyclops wanted to go off on his own and instead was psychically FORCED by Jean into starting a relationship with Emma, who was pretty much Scott's mental rapist, because if they didn't end up together, it would lead to a horrible future. Yet somehow everything is his fault and he's a jerk... double standard anyone? ** Gambit, while he was always an AntiHero, actually only betrayed the X-Men once, when he decided to go and join Apocalypse thinking [[IdiotBall that it could help mutants]] and that he could retain his personality after becoming a Horseman. [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget He was wrong.]] When he [[HesBack returned to normal]], he returned to the good side as well. Yet people seem to think that he betrayed everyone and their mother more times than you can count.*** He also covered up his involvement in the massacre of the Morlocks; he was tricked into that and had no idea it would happen, but it's easy to see why he wouldn't exactly be trusted.** It might be surprising to a lot of people only familiar with the adaptations that Magneto hasn't actually been a villain in over a decade, unless you count his turn in Morrison's run, in which he was either a victim of DemonicPossession, an impostor, or both, depending on which {{retcon}} you believe.** Nightcrawler's faith. It was never intended as a major aspect of his character, in fact most of the time he wasn't even all that religious, but in the hands of some less-than-talented writers like Chuck Austen, it's like he exists to be the token Christian, only for a change of writers to result in this being ignored or downplayed again. Similarly, Northstar's sexuality. Him being gay, other than making him one of the most well known gay superheroes, isn't really that big of a deal to his character at large. His [[{{Jerkass}} personality]] doesn't hinder on the fact he's gay. Yet, in the hands of Chuck Austen, it's like all that matters is that he's gay.** Emma Frost gets a buttload of this due to the fact that she manipulated and essentially ''[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped]]'' Scott and [[KarmaHoudini got away with it]] by starting a relationship with him after Jean's death. The fact that she is his ''therapist'' just made her into more of a colossal bitch. This is somewhat in-universe at well: Rachel Summers never forgave her for having an affair with Scott, although thankfully she never learns of the whole story. It should be noted, however, that her actions were ([[DependingOnTheWriter possibly]]) influenced by Cassandra Nova at the time.* NightmareFuel:** The reason for Storm's severe claustrophobia: When she was a little girl, a plane involved in the Suez Crisis dropped on her family's house, killing her parents instantly, and burying Ororo under the rubble, where she stayed for days... with her mother's mangled corpse ''right in front of her''.** [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101201003936/marveldatabase/images/7/7e/Ichisumi_%28Earth-616%29.jpg Ichisumi]] [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Ichisumi_%28Earth-616%29 the Pestilence]], a.k.a. one of Apocalypse's Horsemen. Her mutant power is to release an infestation of near omnivorous yume beetles stored within her own body by dislodging her jaw, spawning from her mouth in massive swarms either devouring or disfiguring her intended mark. She is also able to mentally link with them when they return to her as each and every individual being her colony consumes also imparts unto them; and subsequently upon their habitat/queen, much of the victims' memories. You think the power to control insects like ''ComicBook/AntMan''[='s=] power is lame? Think again!** Mountjoy is a rarely-seen mutant criminal from the future with a truly ''horrific'' power that combines TheAssimilator with pure unleaded BodyHorror. He can absorb other beings into himself, a process he refers to as a 'merger', and if he doesn't 'divest' the victim they are eventually digested, with Mountjoy gaining all their abilities. At one point he absorbs a normal woman, and as he proceeds to monologue to himself the woman's ''screaming face rises out of his head'', followed by her arms briefly flailing from under his coat. He doesn't even ''pause'' in his monologuing, suggesting that this sort of BodyHorror is just par for the course, and when the woman's face rises up again he just gives his forehead a little smack and smirks to himself while remarking that he "loves it when they struggle".** For other BodyHorror fuel, the Morlocks, the horribly deformed monster mutants lurking in the sewers of New York, and particularly their EvilChancellor, Masque. [[BadPowersBadPeople His power]] is similar to that of the Tzimisce vampires of the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness, namely to magically twist flesh into whatever configurations he desires. In the comic where they kidnapped Kitty Pryde to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force her to marry]] [[TheGrotesque Caliban]], it was revealed that most Morlocks are not ''born'' deformed: It's just policy that Masque gives new "recruits" [[BodyHorror new faces]] so they [[YouCantGoHomeAgain can never return to their old lives]].*** Masque's creatively villainous use of his powers was mostly implicit/told-not-shown throughout most of the Claremont run, but towards the end he wrote some stories where it became horribly explicit, and Masque used it to abuse female([[FridgeHorror ?]]) Morlocks in really nauseating ways.** Genosha, pre-Magneto. Imagine the South African apartheid, only ramped up to a thousand, and with a side of MindRape and BodyHorror thrown in for good measure.* PanderingToTheBase:** For whatever reason, the half of X-Men fandom's BrokenBase that favors Wolverine finds themselves buttered up a lot more than the side that wants him to go away. Any issue with a lineup of X-Men will usually feature Wolverine will be front and center. There was even a cartoon series called ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'', [[SpotlightStealingTitle where the X-Men got second billing]]. The first three ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' films (especially [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the third one]]) are arguably more like Wolverine films than X-Men films.** Another card-related case was the tie-in Top Trumps-like card game for the third film. Each card had four traits, Speed, Strength, Fighting Ability, and Intelligence, each ranking one to seven. Most characters had about two for two of the traits, a four for one more, and six or seven (e.g., Angel had lower traits for the latter three, but a six in speed, while Mystique had low for all but fighting skills and intelligence, and Colossus excelled at strength). Logan had six or seven for ''every trait''. He's apparently a better fighter than Mystique (which as the first ''X-Men'' movie showed was [[CurbStompBattle not the case]]), faster than Angel, stronger than Colossus, and smarter than Doctor Doom.* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:** Ironically, Wolverine was widely hated when he first debuted, so much that the creative team seriously considered killing him off. (He was spared in favor of Thunderbird due to the fact that a HealingFactor and WolverineClaws powerset was very unique at the time.) After some character expansion and a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, Wolverine became so popular that he's now the face of the X-Men. Though he's become a BaseBreakingCharacter since then, partly because his popularity got taken [[WriterOnBoard a bit too far]]...** Madelyne Pryor is an accidental example of this. Back in 1989, Marvel intentionally wanted readers to hate Pryor to make it easy [[DieForOurShip to kill her off]] and RetGone her into an UnPerson, and so turned her into a thoroughly-psychotic WomanScorned who attempted to sacrifice her own son to fuel a demon invasion. For several years, it all worked and Madelyne Pryor was thoroughly hated. Meta circumstances have since turned that around somewhat. With advent of the Information Age (such as websites, like ''this very one''), and Marvel making it easy to read all of Madelyne's pre-1989 appearances via reprints and digital archives (when she was a spunky, independent pilot and a helpful ally to the X-Men), a large amount of the fandom reinterpreted Madelyne as someone who actually got a raw deal, and Cyclops as being entirely too callous towards his wife. And now over the years, Marvel's handling of Jean Grey and Cyclops constantly angers fans. So lately the hatedom towards Pryor seems mostly silent, while her advocates/apologists seem pretty vocal.** Prior to ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Azazel was one of the most unpopular of all the X-Men villains. Now, he's... well, ''still'' unpopular, at least in his original incarnation, but his adaptation has fared rather a bit better in reception** Being revealed as gay did this for Bobby Drake/Iceman, giving him some much-needed CharacterDevelopment after a long period of time being OutOfFocus.** Ironically in an attempt to make him TheScrappy, Cyclops became this. While never quite hated, he was often considered a generic leader and not as interesting as Wolverine with a handful of NeverLiveItDown moments but as he became [[KnightTemplar more extreme]] in his actions, many began [[JerkassHasAPoint agreeing with him]] and considering the rest of the X-Men hypocritical for going against him. Now, even implying he's wrong [[FandomBerserkButton is practically heresy]] and Marvel's continued attempts to paint him as a villain is met with bitter contention.* RomanticPlotTumour: The Wolverine/Jean/Cyclops love triangle. While fans tend [[OfficialCouple to ship any]] [[FanPreferredCouple combination of]] [[HoYay the three]], many dislike the way that the triangle essentially just makes Wolverine and Cyclops act like dicks to each other while Jean condescends them for fighting while actively fueling said fighting. Even worse given the fact that, despite Jean being ''dead'', the two boys are ''still'' fighting over her.* RootingForTheEmpire:** A not-insignificant portion of the fandom reads ''entirely'' for the bad guys, even knowing StatusQuoIsGod in this medium. The fact that the X-Men seem to suffer from perpetual GenreBlindness, trucking on with their doomed mission despite very obviously living in a CrapsackWorld, makes it hard for some not to root for the more VisionaryVillain antagonists like Magneto, Exodus or, in recent years, Cyclops. The general idea here is "they might bad guys, but at least their hands aren't permanently attached to the IdiotBall."** The anti-mutant human villains also have their fans. Bolivar Trask, Stephen Lang, William Stryker and the Genoshans (among others) are certainly [[KnightTemplar zealous]] in their anti-mutantism, but recalling ''[[NoMereWindmill how often]]'' mutant supervillains have nearly destroyed the world, and how [[MilitariesAreUseless woefully insufficient]] existing government efforts to police them always prove, it makes a certain amount of sense to at least some readers that non-powered humans who [[MugglePower don't want to end up marginalized on their own planet]] should resort to extreme measures to curb them. It probably also helps that these guys tend to [[EvilIsCool dress in cool military uniforms]] rather than garish superhero/supervillain suits, and further that they have to be [[VillainousValor pretty damn brave and competent]] to go up against major super-people armed only or mostly with largely mundane weapons, and still pose a threat to them.* TheScrappy:** Very few people seem to like Ink. Even fewer like the new Hellfire Club made up of 12-year-olds. ** Any mutant willing to work with the government can get this, too, the most prominent in recent years being Wolverine and Havok. In the characters' defense, this is less about them and more due to the fact that the government's position on mutants varies from morally-ambiguous but fair to FinalSolution-crazy dictatorship DependingOnTheWriter.** Quentin Quire started off as a minor character, basically the super-powered mutant equivalent of a school shooter and a teenaged sociopath who manipulated others into joining a small cult of wannabe Magnetos, before dying of a drug overdose of sorts. He was revived a few times, before finally returning during ''Schism'', serving as one source of the conflict between Wolverine and Cyclops to push them apart further, before joining Wolverine's school. He's continued to be written by Jason Aaron, who's since then made him one of the main characters, including being the main student, of his run, with him being at the front of every big event he writes, including his future self being the Phoenix in ''Comicbook/BattleOfTheAtom''. All of this, despite being largely loathed by fandom. Every writer tends to have one kid they push, and usually it works. This case, however, it most certainly has not, and isn't helped by his continued use.** Flip-flopped with Madelyne Pryor, who seemed to have been the most [[{{Hatedom}} vehemently hated]] of all characters among X-Men fandom for many years [[ComicBook/{{Inferno}} since 1989]] (trying to sacrifice your own son to demons will tend to do that). The attitude had already begun shifting before Morrison's run, which some fans reinterpreting Cyclops as having more culpability than initial reactions suggested, but after Cyclops and Jean Grey were "broken up", Grey got "pink slipped", and Emma Frost was "hooked up", the hatedom towards Pryor seemed to abruptly wither and then die with a whimper. ** Azazel was this for a real long time, being featured in the infamous "The Draco" story which is widely considered to be one of the worst X-Men stories of all time. It took being adapted into ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' in an almost completely-reimagined form for him to get some semblance of RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.** Matthew Malloy, a GenericDoomsdayVillain created by... uh, let's go with [[BrokenBase polarizing]] writer Creator/BrianBendis. It didn't help that he [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains effortlessly killed]] the extremely powerful Exodus, one of the few well-regarded '90s X-villains.** Also the Apocalypse Twins, a pair of evil mutants introduced in ''Uncanny Avengers'' who look like dollar-bin refugees from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and narratively speaking, are the unholy fusion of [[WalkingWasteland Holocaust]] and [[ThoseWackyNazis the Fenris Twins]].* ShipToShipCombat: Fandom is divided into those who think Rogue ''must'' be with Gambit and those who think that no matter who they themselves favor, ''anyone'' is preferable to Remy as Rogue's love interest. The same goes for Magneto, who was PromotedToLoveInterest for Rogue after the Rogue/Gambit ship hit a big rock (namely, Gambit's chicanery with the Marauders being revealed).** Interestingly, Remy/Rogue wasn't even the original endgame. Chris Claremont created Gambit as '''Storm's''' love interest and planned on having a shock reveal where Storm would ultimately find out that Gambit was really arch-villain Mr. Sinister, in a new body designed to further torment the X-Men. *** Take that and toss in Scott/Jean/Wolverine and Scott/Jean/Emma Frost; the former (Jean and Wolverine hooking up) was teased at the start of the Casey/Morrison run but fans were so overwhelmingly negative that Morrison ended up going with Emma/Scott, which did not go over well and led to later writers going with Cyclops/Emma Frost/Namor, as far as retconning a relationship with Namor into Emma's past to pander to fans who HATE the Scott/Emma pairing. ** Don't forget that in addition to Wolverine/Jean, there are Wolverine/Mariko and Wolverine/Storm ships as well.* StrangledByTheRedString: ** Some fans think this way about Scott dating Emma Frost. Some even like to believe that Creator/JoeQuesada (well-known for his dislike of characters being married) forced Creator/GrantMorrison to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drop a bridge on Jean Grey]], because they don't want to believe that Morrison came up with something like this on his own. (As a matter of fact, no X-Men writer ever had a freer hand what to do with them.) What's really bad is the excuse given for why they're dating so soon after that is "not" a rebound relationship (Morrison had them have an adulterous psychic affair before Jean's death, but realistically that was Emma -- his supposed therapist -- unethically taking advantage of him when he was vulnerable.) As proof it was contrived, there is this BadFuture that Jean needed to avert. Going back in time, like ''every other'' such future, somehow wasn't an option. Instead the only options were: 1. Scott and Emma didn't get together, the X-Men would fall apart and things go all to holy hell. 2. Jean brainwashes her husband into forgetting his feelings for Jean and giving in to his attraction to Emma.** ''Most'' fans regard ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s marriage as something akin to this. Many of those who were interested in the idea were annoyed at Reginald Hudlin's [[ProtectionFromEditors hamfisted railroading]] of the relationship from casual acquaintance to "Wedding of Perfect Couple" as soon as possible, especially since they were made out as some kind of "First Couple of Black Superheroes." Subsequent writers were not subtle about their distaste for the pairing, and found any possible reason to have Storm go on missions with the X-Men or for T'Challa to have solo adventures. After the events of the ''X-Men vs. Avengers'', where the two fought, their marriage has been annulled.** Bobby Drake/Iceman and Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat seem to be falling into this trope. As of the seventh issue of the ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' comic, Bobby and Kitty have shared two kisses, despite the fact that they've spent years as distant acquaintances at best. They had a decent relationship arc in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, and writers have been known to mix the two up before. It comes completely out of nowhere in the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse.** Depending on who you ask, the Magneto/Rogue ship also falls into this trope. It's always been one of the weirder X-relationships, being pushed every couple of years by the PowersThatBe despite it never really picking up steam until Gambit's popularity as a character waned, and it was also made canon in the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''. Recent years have seen it cross into UnfortunateImplications territory (particularly in ''X-Men Legacy'') as Magneto's appearance has been drawn as steadily older while Rogue's has been drawn as (for some reason) steadily younger. Add in one ''very'' [[http://i.imgur.com/8n4h2Vj.jpg revealing conversation]] between Rogue and Toad in ''X-Men Legacy'' #265 and you have the perfect red string storm.* StrawmanHasAPoint:** Very often it seems like is [[MemeticMutation Magneto was right]] arguing that peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants is impossible, considering that no matter what the X-Men do, the plot never seems to get any closer to reaching that, particularly because people in the Marvel Universe are TooDumbToLive and suffer from AesopAmnesia regarding that theme. It gets even worse that in a lot stories throughout the Marvel Universe, especially in recent years, they seem willing to easily sacrifice any and all of their freedoms at a moment's notice, so quite often it would seem like the world would be better if the X-Men let Magneto TakeOverTheWorld, since at least he doesn't go making the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] the most powerful man in America.** Robert Kelly's arguments (such as comparing mutant registration to gun control) actually made sense to some readers and viewers. Then they turned an otherwise logical argument into an {{anvilicious}} allegory to [=McCarthyism=] when they had the senator hold up a "list of names of identified mutants", shifting the argument from "Some mutants are dangerous" to "All mutants are dangerous." Of course, once the killer mutant-seeking robots come in (and ''they always do''), it seems clear that Kelly is JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, even if his arguments do have a grain of truth to them.* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:** The 'Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier' story featured a brief, throwaway appearance by Exodus as an agent of SHIELD and the head of its psi division. Yes, ''[[KnightTemplar Exodus]]''. And the thing is, exploring how a character like Exodus would [[HeelFaceTurn come to work for SHIELD at all]], let alone go so far as to help an organization primarily made up of humans hunt down a dangerous mutant threat, would be a story seriously worth reading. Unfortunately, though, Bennet was just there to [[TheWorfEffect get worfed]] by Bendis's GenericDoomsdayVillain Matthew Malloy and he played no further part in the rest of the story, which was so bad that it ended up being retconned.** UsefulNotes/TheNineties are pretty much a ''landfill'' of these, thanks to the high creator turnover and endless backstage politics going on at the time. A lot of villains from the era (indeed, entire villain ''teams'' fall under this umbrella) had massive potential but thanks to poor writing are barely remembered today (The Acolytes, the Upstarts, the Externals, etc). There's also the characters that never even got a ''chance'' to show their stuff, like Adrienne Frost, Genesis and Haven. If you ever wondering why the segment of the fandom that's Nineties-centric just tunes out of the current Cyclops VS Wolverine rigmarole altogether, well, this is why.* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In rough order of severity and depending on the writer, Kitty Pryde, Cyclops, Professor X, Magneto, Emma Frost, and Wolverine. Logan especially, considering that he's been used for JerkassHasAPoint moments too many times that whenever he criticizes anyone for their behavior, he's almost undoubtedly done the exact thing he's condemning. At this point, being a giant hypocrite is slowly becoming a character trait for Logan.** What makes Wolverine such a frustrating example of this trope is that the character is basically a KarmaHoudini on wheels -- other Marvel U AntiHero characters like ComicBook/ThePunisher, [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Agent Venom]], and in the X-Universe ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and most pointedly ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, '''all''' suffer the consequences of their JerkAss behavior through generous doses of ZeroPercentApprovalRating, CantGetAwayWithNuthin, etc. Logan is a character with a body count behind him that would make most SerialKiller characters blush yet enjoys a consistent HundredPercentAdorationRating and is regarded as a trusted ally of characters like Captain America, Spider-Man, etc... you know, the same people who would be calling for him to stand trial [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality if he were anyone else]]. In general, both the character ''[[RunningTheAsylum and the narrative]]'' bend over backwards to handwave Wolverine's crimes. At one point Logan even [[MoralMyopia says himself]] that he's only ever killed people who deserved it; as his victims mostly consist of various {{Mooks}} and RedShirts, the narrative treats this as him telling it like it is rather than the WhatTheHellHero moment it ought to be.* WriterOnBoard: With a number of his former fans now [[RunningTheAsylum writers at Marvel themselves]], Wolverine is a frequent beneficiary of this, often being written as an unstoppable badass who is always right [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality no matter what horrible thing he does or suggests doing]]. It's not usually so bad when the writers instead focus on other characters, but sometimes it can be quite extreme.** Wolverine went the other direction in ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'', where he was portrayed as a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty idiot]] whose main role was being [[CharacterFilibuster lectured at]] by the more "enlightened" members of the team. This, naturally, didn't satisfy many people either.** As Wolverine's OppositeSexClone, it's perhaps not a surprise that X-23 gets slathered with this too. Run, don't walk, away from any issue [[CreatorsPet her creator]] Craig Kyle has penned.* VindicatedByHistory: The original series was never a top-seller, but sales had declined so much by the end of the 1960s that the book was cancelled. A little bit later, the series (with its original numbering) returned, but only as a reprint title. A number at Marvel did like the book and the characters, but they couldn't figure out ''how'' to bring them back until 1975s ''Giant-Sized X-Men #1''. After that was published and received strong response, Marvel has kept the X-Men in regular publication ever since -- adding many spin-offs and mini-series to the archive (and many hours of outside, successful media).* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Asked by the fandom in the 90s of Gambit after he was outed for his role in the Mutant Massacre. He was eventually accepted back by the team, though his fandom [[NeverLiveItDown never really recovered]].* TheWoobie: The Morlocks after having been massacred by the Marauders.[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=YMMVs=] for the 1992 X-Men animated series:]]* AcceptableTargets: Graydon Creed and the Friends of Humanity.* AwesomeEgo: Apocalypse has a massive god complex, views all life as beneath him, that only his vision of reality has an right to exist and scoffs and at morality outside of his own, and looks awesome doing all of it.* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IzSGvXc_PM The show's opening theme.]] Undisputably badass.** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTad94mre8 The Japanese version ain't slacking off either.]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Oh Wait... scroll down]].** Colossus' theme music.* BadassDecay: ComicBook/JeanGrey in the comics is one of the most powerful X-Men characters. By contrast, she suffers a ''heavy'' case of AdaptationalWimp in the show, with her telepathy usually backfiring on her or her telekinesis not holding up well under strain. It was likely that this nerfing was intentional, as she would otherwise be at StoryBreakerPower levels (tellingly, the villain Exodus, himself a frequent wielder of StoryBreakerPower, was one of the few characters who never made an appearance in the show). The Season 3 adaptation of the Dark Phoenix Saga is the only time in the show that Jean comes anywhere close to her comic book level of power.* BaseBreakingCharacter: Jubilee is either hated by fans that find her increasingly annoying and her powers to be stupid, or loved by fans that enjoy her spunkiness as well as her playful and innocent attitude. It's a similar case for her in the comic books as well. Some also dislike her for not being ComicBook/KittyPryde, as Jubilee had largely replaced Kitty in the comics as "Wolverine's sidekick", and Jubilee tended to replace Kitty's role in the story adaptions, with stories like "Kitty's Fairy Tale" being adapted to animation as "''Jubilee'''s Fairytale Theater".* BizarroEpisode: Mojovision. Holy crap, Mojovision.* CantUnhearIt: ''X-Men: The Animated Series'' provided a lot of very iconic and popular voices for characters associated with the X-Men that fans, particularly the ones who grew up in the 90's, tend to read the comics in the show's voices. Due to the large popularity the show has, fans tend to hear Cedric Smith as Professor X, Norm Spencer as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, Catherine Disher as ComicBook/JeanGrey, George Buza as Beast, Creator/CalDodd as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Alison Sealy Smith or Iona Morris as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, Chris Porter or Tony Daniels as ComicBook/{{Gambit}}, Creator/LenoreZann as ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, and Creator/AlysonCourt as Jubilee. Additionally, the series provided popular voices for the enemies of the X-Men, especially David Hamblem as ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.** John Colicos will forever be the one and only voice of Apocalypse.* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/MarvelAnimation here]].* ContinuityLockOut: The first two seasons are pretty heavy on story arcs. The first season even sees most episodes leading directly into the next, meaning you'd have no choice but to watch the premiere and the episodes in their proper order. Season 3 was a bit better in this regard--having more stand-alone adventures, but also a major story arc and prominent sequel episodes. With few exceptions, Seasons 4 and 5 were generally more episodic.* CriticalResearchFailure: In one episode, Gambit travels to Washington, D.C., which apparently is located in the state of Washington.** At points it becomes obvious this show was produced pre-Internet, such as the episode that takes place in Tanzania, only the writers had no idea what African country Mt. Kilimanjaro is in so it is only referred to as "... that part of Africa."* CryForTheDevil: While Graydon Creed's crimes make him a HateSink, his FreudianExcuse -- being a MuggleBornOfMages {{Unfavorite}} of Mutant AbusiveParents -- can make his anti-Mutant FantasticRacism at least more understandable than most others'.* EnsembleDarkhorse: ** Beast. [[WordOfGod Eric Lewald]] states that the writers considered him a guest character in Season 1, which is why he was largely sidelined. Fans and writers alike took to the character, leading to his increased prominence for the remainder of the series.** Morph was present in the first episodes ''entirely'' for the purpose [[SacrificialLamb of being killed off]] so the writers could show how serious the series would be. However, his unexpected popularity led to him being revived in the second season.** Nightcrawler's episode was so well-received they wrote a second one just to bring him back and the writers seriously considered [[SixthRanger having him join the X-Men]] after "Bloodlines." Which would have been quite appropriate, seeing as how Nightcrawler was part of the original ''New X-Men'' lineup from the 70s -- alongside Wolverine and Colossus.* EscapistCharacter: Jubilee is a hybrid of this and AudienceSurrogate for the show's target demographic, being introduced in the first episode as a young new mutant who is quickly adopted into the X-Men.* EvilIsCool: Many of the villains, especially the bigoted ones, just fall into HateSink. Apocalypse on the other hand is an [[EvilIsHammy unapologetically theatrical]] would-be mutant overlord who chews the scenery every single time he shows up while plotting the destruction of mankind and mutantkind alike. He's also easily one of the most powerful characters on the show, such that it takes the entire X-Men team to even show him down.* EvilIsSexy: Mystique, so very much.* FanPreferredCouple: Storm/Wolverine after "One Man's Worth."* FoeYay:** In the final episode of the series, [[spoiler:Magneto, upon hearing that he may be the only one able to save the dying Xavier, abandons the army he had gathered and goes to save his arch-enemy.]] It is possible that they're just ''really good friends,'' [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation but...]]--> '''Jean Grey:''' "How much do you '''love''' Charles Xavier?"** The number of these moments between Magneto and Xavier is somewhat HilariousInHindsight seeing as several years on, openly gay actor Creator/IanMcKellen was cast as Magneto in the live-action films.** Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/MichaelFassbender took the HoYay and FoeYay to ''ridiculous'' levels in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.* FridgeLogic:** The Sentinels, which are government made and run, wind up being a much greater threat to the public then mutants even if they worked as intended.** For the viewers who aren't familiar with comics, the public respect towards Superheroes (both ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/MsMarvel) can be this trope in context of their fear towards mutants in spite of coexistence with the aforementioned group.* FridgeHorror: ** The end of "Bloodlines" has the High Command of the Friends of Humanity chastise Graydon Greed for his failure to kill off his mutant family members, but give him "one final chance" to redeem himself by assigning a mission to kill Sabretooth, his father. Given that Sabretooth is also implied to have ''horribly abused Graydon'' to the point that he inspired his hatred of mutants and created the organisation, that Graydon Creed is still deathly afraid of him (more so because he doesn't age, and is still a man in his prime), and that Sabretooth is seemingly bemused (if not displeased) that his son who became in his words "the infamous slayer of mutants" is now in front of his doorstep, it seems less of an assignment to Graydon Creed, and more of [[YouHaveFailedMe a death sentence for his failure]].** The episode "Descent" reveals that Mister Sinister was married to a woman named Rebecca Grey, heavily implied to be an ancestor of Jean Grey, which while providing context, makes [[StalkerWithATestTube his creepy obsession with her]] all the more disturbing. It's even worse when you consider that he experimented on his wife (it was to save her life, but still), and may have been the reason why the x-gene passed on to Jean.* GeniusBonus: Magneto once said to Wolverine, Cyclops and Storm "Oh, brave new world that has such people in it!" That quote is taken from the book ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' by Aldous Huxley, which in turn cites Creator/WilliamShakespeare in-story for that quote. Or it may be directly a quote to Shakespeare; but in any case the words do not belong to Magneto.* HilariousInHindsight:** In "The Phalanx Covenant" two-parter: While taking over the Earth, the Phalanx intend to assimilate mutant powers to further their goals. Beast shudders at the thought of (essentially) one being having every mutant power on Earth. Flash forward a decade later to the ''New Avengers'' arc, "The Collective"...** In the unaired pilot episode ''Pryde of the X-Men'', Wolverine has a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4d7TEvwznA noticeable Australian accent.]] Now ''[[Creator/HughJackman who]]'' portrays Wolverine in the [[Film/XMenFilmSeries film series]]?** Wolverine's black and gray spacesuit from "Sanctuary: Part 2" looks a lot like the uniform he'd wear many years later in the revamped ''Comicbook/XForce'' comic book.** Wolverine's [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer threat to Cyclops after he marries]] Jean, warning him "If she's not happy, make sure I don't find out." Considering what Cyclops does with Emma Frost, with Jean finding out...** In the alternate timeline where the X-Men never were, due to Xavier's death, the familiar heroes are battling the human forces, leading to the eventual deployment of "the first wave of superhumans" against the mutants, which are {{cameo}}s of ComicBook/TheAvengers. A decade and a half later, a CrisisCrossover takes place titled, ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen''...** The Storm-focused "Storm Front" two-parter has Storm become engaged to Arkon, a seemingly affable alien ruler, but Wolverine and Beast consider Storm's acceptance to be too quick; when Storm refers to Arkon as the man she loves, Wolverine quips, "who you just met." The series' DVD releases were licensed by Creator/{{Disney}}, who later released [[Disney/{{Frozen}} a movie]] with a very similar line and theme, and which similarly focused on a main character with ElementalPowers.*** Comic fans also had a similar experience when [[ExecutiveMeddling Marvel Editors]] decided to suddenly [[StrangledByTheRedString retcon a backstory]] between Storm and ComicBook/BlackPanther, in order to wed them.* HoYay: Wolverine noticeably takes Morph's death harder than anyone else (after being perfectly willing to risk his own life to try and save him), and later makes sure to avenge him. When Morph comes {{back from the dead}} Wolverine is quite emotional (for him), and is far more determined than anyone else to bring him back home, even chasing him to South America before reluctantly accepting that he needed time alone. He was also quite happy to have him back in "Courage" and volunteers the two of them for a mission together as soon as one comes up. For his part, Morph "dies" trying to save him and specifically calls out to him when he calls for help in "Reunion." At one point he also, while declaring he'll kill all the X-Men, thinks of killing Wolverine and suddenly snaps back to his "good" personality.* JerkassWoobie: ** Erik, so very much.** James Hudson aka Vindicator, comes off as one. He took Wolverine leaving Alpha Flight very hard, which implies that they were at one point, very good friends. "Repo Man" has him essentially try to conscript Wolverine back into service by siccing Alpha Flight on him when he returns to Canada, but then he rants to him about him about him leaving. Heather implies that the whole situation with Logan caused him to act this way.* MagnificentBastard: Apocalypse is behind EVERYTHING.* MemeticMutation: "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"** "I am as far beyond mutants as they are are beyond you!"** "The wild man of Borneo." <shifty eyes> "See you around."** "Mmm, turkey!"** PREVIOUSLY, ON X-MEN.** "JEEEEEEEEEEAN!"** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieog_e2tIvY COVERED WITH SCORPIONS...]]** His wheelchair is clearly orange.* NarmCharm: The cheesy voice acting often serves as one of the major draws for the show. Storm in particular is celebrated for being an over-the-top [[LargeHam Mistress of Ham.]]** The ChristmasEpisode and the SeasonFinale are definitely guilty of this.* NeverLiveItDown: Angel/Archangel's appearances entirely revolved around Apocalypse's turning him into a Horseman, and his vengeful streak afterward, apart from the very last example when he abandoned his obsession with revenge just in time for Apocalypse to try to ''[[InTheirOwnImage remake time and space into his own image]]''.* NightmareFuel:** What the Dark Phoenix did to Mastermind after she came out of his {{Brainwashing}}.** The Shadow King.** That... thing that was imprisoned in a Shi'ar starship that crashed on Earth. It eats ''souls''.** Everything about Bishop's BadFuture. [[FridgeHorror The worst part about it?]] No matter how many times Bishop (and later Shard) travel to the [[TheNineties past]] and set right what went wrong, ''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption nothing changes]]''. Plus, that time era's Forge has ''Wolverine's bare skeleton suspended in a tube''.** A montage was put together of what would happen if Phoenix/Dark Phoenix were allowed to run amok. The results were fire covering the entire Earth. Sleep tight, kiddies.** The effects of the Legacy Virus. It makes circuits appear all over your skin.** The first episode of the Phoenix Saga ends with Jean Grey essentially being burned alive; the scene cuts out on her agonized screaming, and then the screen fills with a particularly scary-looking version of the Phoenix...** The end of the first part of Bishop's second appearance has Apocalypse straight-up ''kill'' the X-Men, ''on-camera''. Even worse is how sudden it is. He grows to fifty feet tall, growls at the X-Men, and in a flash they're incinerated.* OneSceneWonder: Apocalypse making such an impression whenever he shows up can make it easy to forget that he only appears once a season.* PeripheryDemographic: Despite running as a Saturday Morning kids show, the material did not shy away from the darker content of the comics and thus continued to appeal to older comics fans as well.* TheScrappy: Warlock from the "Phalanx Covenant" story arc. He was just an annoying voice attached to a silly alien belief structure that was reminiscent of nothing more so than Rolf from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: One of the Japanese intros to the show ("Rising"/"Shock") is heavily influenced by "Rising Force" by Music/YngwieMalmsteen.* TearJerker: So, so many.** The BadFuture montage stands out as it depicts something fans aren't used to: the X-Men losing. Bishop narrates events from his perspective of the 1990s forward to his time (2050s), in which Senator Kelly is assassinated, the Mutant Registration Act passes and Sentinels are deployed to "enforce" the Act. Then the Sentinels decide they could take over, and smash into the White House. The scenes of Bishop's future show captured X-Men being herded into concentration-style camps and end with a cemetery of dead X-Men. Probably the most evocative image was the close-up of Jubilee's grave, which is the last to be shown, and reveals that she, the youngest member of the team, would be the first to die... if they don't stop Senator Kelly's assassination in the first place.*** "Beauty and the Beast."*** The episode "Repo Man" counts once you realize the whole episode was about a couple who in the past helped a traumatized man (Wolverine) rebuild his life, have him join a government-sponsored superhero group that they just happened to work for to give him a sense of purpose, with said man having forged a deep friendship with the team, only for their relationship to somehow go sour just before he left Canada to join the X-Men. It got to a point where they tricked him into returning to Canada, just so that they can work together again, despite the fact that Wolverine left on his own volition and Wolverine finding out the one he apparently liked the most (Heather) arranged the trap. After the team realise that Wolverine was not captured to rejoin the team, but to build another Weapon X, they work to free him, save for Vindicator, the very man who first helped him in the beginning, refusing to let Wolverine leave them again. When Wolverine defeats him, Heather begs him to spare his life, and while Wolverine accepts he makes it clear to them he's never coming back. As he escapes the facility, Heather stares on, realising that it may be the last time she ever sees Wolverine again, and perhaps wondering if he'll ever forgive her for taking advantage of his trust.* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids?: This show was pretty ambitious and revolutionary for it's time. Characters could be KilledOffForReal, and serious subjects like death and bigotry were handled well.* ToughActToFollow: The series is considered to be among one of the greatest comic book series of all time, and the best ''X-Men'' series out of the ones created, which has made it harder for the later series (such as ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'') to stand out.* TrappedByMountainLions: Professor X and Magneto are stranded in the Savage Land for almost the entire second season. For the most part, it rarely took up more than a minute or two per episode. These scenes did ultimately tie into the main story arc. Sauron and a few Mutates were introduced one-by-one to set up their roles in the season finale. Mister Sinister's machinations, the reason why mutant powers were disabled in the region, and the fate of Ka-Zar's tribe were also foreshadowed. On the other hand, Xavier and Magneto just seemed to be wandering around the area rather than trying to figure out what was going on or trying to escape[[note]]it wasn't until the season finale that they made a point of trying to reach the mini-jet that Xavier had flown there[[/note]], which contributed to the sense that these scenes were just there to take up time.* TheWoobie: The whole cast has their moments:** Nightcrawler after the events of "Bloodlines."** [[spoiler:Morph]], during his second season subplot and any of his later guest appearances.** The series' rendition of Kevin "Proteus" [=McTaggert=]. He's de-aged to teenagehood and his powers don't kill people any longer, so he's seen in a far more sympathetic light.[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=YMMVs=] for the 1992 X-Men arcade game:]]* AdaptationDisplacement: The video game is much better known the one-episode pilot ''Pryde of the X-Men'' it was spun off from.* AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsf7foyXIt8 intro]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-V2yvedY6U Stage 1 music,]] which both served to hype players up into playing the game to hear more.* HamAndCheese: While the dialogue is cheesy, the actors seem to be hamming it up, especially since the remake required all voices to be re-recorded, so the new actors had to be made aware of what they were doing and be told that the cheesy dialog was kept on purpose.* HilariousInHindsight: Among the game's stable of {{Mooks}}, there are [[PaletteSwap recolored]] Sentinels that sport a blue-and-orange paint job, first appearing in the second stage. Fast forward to the early 2000s and the fan-modded custom colors for ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 MvC2]]'' and... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA "OH HE GOT DA MANGO SENTINEL!"]]* ILikedItBetterWhenItSucked: It was announced that the dialogue would be re-recorded and the cheesy lines would be removed and replaced with more natural dialogue. As it was, the dialogue had to be re-recorded anyway due to legal issues with the original voices, but upon hearing the fans' complaints, the company making the port [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPrnh-zZwqc decided to keep all the cheese on purpose]] so the game would avert this.* MemeticMutation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAmkx8eAos "Welcome to DIE!"]] and [[FountainOfMemes the myriad other dialogue]] voiced by our favorite [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuWKAMAlQU "Master of Magnet."]] The former was so notable, it was {{ascended|Meme}} ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tl7Bbn5niI by none other than]] ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}) in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''.** Then there's [[MostAnnoyingSound the sound Colossus makes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLpovcDujw when using his Mutant Power.]] The "WHOAAAAAARGH!" has become the unofficial rallying cry for [[http://www.magfest.org MAGFest]], after that sound reverberated through the arcade room one too many times. Shouting it at nearly any time will usually be answered with others shouting "WHOAAAAAARGH!" themselves.[[note]](In subsequent years, signage was put up around the convention hall kindly asking con attendees ''not'' to do that; guess it was more of a MostAnnoyingSound then they realized.)[[/note]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome They even got]] Creator/NobuoUematsu [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYjlggRLPE to do it on stage!]]** "NOTHING moves the Blob!"*** (''is moved'')* NarmCharm* SoBadItsGood: The cutscenes and dialogue, and possibly the simple gameplay. According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8QBiLxoJVQ IGN's video review:]] "Sometimes something is so terrible that it's fantastic, and that's more or less the case here."[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=YMMVs=] for the X-Men anime series:]]* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jTogBrWrA The opening theme]], which sounds truly epic.* CompleteMonster:** Sublime and Kick, also known as the U-Men, are the {{Starter Villain}}s, and make the most of their limited screentime to stand out as truly horrifying monsters. A pair of [[FantasticRacism mutant-hating]] [[SerialKiller serial killers]], the U-Men are known for kidnapping mutants, [[WouldHurtAChild specifically young teens]], then sadistically butchering and vivisecting them, using their organs to upgrade their own cyborg army. Along with this, the U-Men gleefully test out an experimental serum on innocent mutants that transform them into abominations [[AndIMustScream in constant pain]]. When Kick fails at killing the X-Men, he wantonly opens fire on them along with the numerous teenagers and police officers in the area, trying to kill anyone he can. Sublime, having left Kick to his fate, returns with a powerful suit of armor and tries to kill the X-Men, before blowing himself up in one last attempt on their lives. The U-Men both spend their last moments proclaiming their hatred and disgust for all mutantkind, and were defined by these throughout the series, showing that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans could be just as wicked as the far more powerful mutants of their world]].** [[MasterOfIllusion Mastermind]], real name [[TheChessmaster Jason Wyngarde]], is the leader of the Inner Circle, a group of mutant supremacists, and is [[BigBad behind all the evil in the series]]. The one responsible for Jean Grey's rampage across a city and her own death by transforming her into [[PersonOfMassDestruction the Phoenix]], Mastermind framed his former lover, ComicBook/EmmaFrost, as responsible for Jean's death as revenge for Frost leaving him. Working with the aforementioned mutant-killing U-Men (who are unaware that Mastermind is a mutant), Mastermind fully endorses their crimes, and uses them to learn of a powerful mutant residing in Japan, where he uses his abilities to ingratiate himself into the lab staff of mutant researcher Yui Sasaki. Learning that the powerful mutant is Sasaki's own teenage son, Takeo, who has [[RealityWarper reality-warping powers]], Mastermind spends months secretly using his powers to MindRape the boy into near insanity. After the X-Men out him as the villain he is, Mastermind amplifies his psychological torture on Takeo, driving the boy into a horrifying state of death-longing insanity as [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity his powers go out of control]]. While holding numerous X-Men, one of which is a barely trained young girl, hostage, and using his powers to torture Cyclops, Mastermind reveals he plans to unleash Takeo's powers on the world like he attempted with Jean Grey, then watch the worldwide destruction and chaos that unfolds before him. Believing himself and all mutants to be the MasterRace of the Earth, Mastermind committed all of his crimes with a [[FauxAffablyEvil polite and cheerful attitude]], treating his atrocities as his "right" to perpetrate for being at the top of the evolutionary food chain.* HoYay: Between Cyclops and Wolverine. You'd have to be blind not to at least once think "will they just get a room already?"* MoralEventHorizon: When the U-Men try targeting ''kids'' just to improve their power, you know they've gone too far.* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While the entire series being better than the [[WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen last X-Men show]] overall would be a bold claim, the handling of Cyclops in comparison has unarguably been greatly improved. Both shows have Cyclops at roughly the same stage in his life: He lost Jean and is still grieving. But, in ''WATXM'', Cyclops was largely just a moody loner who didn't deal with it properly. Here, however, he starts with minor DeathSeeker tendencies, but evolves to the point where he overcomes his despair. Largely, people prefer the way he's written here compared to the previous show (and compared to the entire live-action film series).[[/folder]]----